Category: Quotations

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror.  I can take the next thing that comes along.”  You must do the thing you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 –…

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste.  The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.Thomas Arnold Bennett

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.Jerry Seinfeld (1954 – )And, in the 21st Century it just exactly fits the Internet.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.H.H. Munro ‘Saki’

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo EmersonUnless you are camping, where this advice is the worst possible; and most environmentally destructive.  Instead, try: Leave your camp site cleaner than you found it, and leave no trace of your presence.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them.  There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard Byrd

Be like a postage stamp.  Stick to one thing until you get there.Josh Billings